Bring the Shaome Model to Your Community

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Food Security Can be Grown Where You Are

Shaome Cooperative began in Georgia with a bold goal: to help make Georgia the first food secure state in the nation. If you are in Georgia, there are several ways to help bring Shaome’s work to your community.

You can recommend:

  • A school that may be a good fit for the GROW Program
  • A business, institution, place of worship, or community facility with land that could become a Facility Food Forest, also known as F3
  • A city-managed property if you are a mayor, commissioner, council member, or local government leader
  • A public-facing campus such as a university, Farm Bureau office, Extension office, or similar site that could become a Food Forest Classroom

Every community has places where food, education, and long-term resilience could take root.

Shaome Cooperative is looking for partners, properties, and leaders who want to help make food security visible, practical, and local across Georgia. Contact us to get the conversation started.

For Communities Outside Georgia

The need for food security does not stop at state lines.

Across the country, and around the world, communities are asking the same questions:

How do we help people reconnect with the land?
How do we teach children and families how food grows?
How do we turn underused spaces into places of nourishment, learning, and resilience?
How do we make food security visible, local, and lasting?

While Shaome’s direct planting and program work is currently focused in Georgia, we offer several ways for individuals, schools, nonprofits, community leaders, businesses, and organizations outside Georgia to llearn from our model and begin adapting it in their own communities:

  • The Food Security Blueprint (book)
  • Shaome Skool (online learning)
  • Personal Consulting
Communities Outside of Georgia | Shaome Cooperative
The Food Security Blueprint book by Chelsea McClain

A visionary guide to redesigning our communities for lasting food security.

Chelsea McClain’s book, The Food Security Blueprint, introduces the larger vision behind Shaome Cooperative’s work: food security is not only about emergency response. It is about how we design the places where we live, learn, work, worship, and gather.

This book helps readers think differently about land, food access, education, and community resilience. It is ideal for individuals, leaders, educators, nonprofits, and local decision-makers who want to better understand how Food Forests, edible landscapes, schools, neighborhoods, and public spaces can become part of the solution.
Shaome Skool | Shaome Cooperative

Online learning for people who want to grow food security where they are.

Shaome Skool makes sustainable gardening and Food Forest education easier to access through short, engaging online lessons. It is designed for people who want to learn at their own pace and begin applying food security principles in real life.

Through Shaome Skool, participants can learn foundational concepts related to Food Forests, sustainable growing, community food security, and land-based education.

This is a strong option for people outside Georgia who want to understand the Shaome approach without needing an in-person program.
Consulting | Shaome Cooperative

Guidance for communities ready to explore their own Food Forest or food security model.

For organizations, schools, agencies, businesses, and community leaders outside of Georgia who want more direct support, The Shaome Team is available for personal consulting.

Consulting can help you think through how the Shaome model may translate to your location, your land, your audience, and your goals.

Every community is different. Climate, culture, available land, funding, leadership, volunteers, and local needs all matter. Consulting provides a more personalized way to explore what is possible and what steps may make sense for your community.
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